Floyd Norman recalls how things were back in the old Disney Animation Building on the Main Lot:

Those of you who never experienced, “Old Disney,” I’ll remind you that directors had units on the second floor of the Animation Building. The director’s office was usually sandwiched between two large offices. That meant the director could get up from his chair and walk into the space of his layout crew. If he went the other direction, he would be in one of the large story rooms. In any case, he had easy access to his crew. The director was buffered by his secretary, and if he chose not to be disturbed, he simply closed his office door.

Rarely do we get to hear about Ham Luske or Clyde Geronimi so this kind of info is great.

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It’s gonna be a great couple of weeks for fans of 101 Dalmatians.  Michael Sporn has begun breaking down the individual walk cycles from the movie, starting with this—the Art Student from the opening credits.

He gives credit to Frank Thomas and Blaine Gibson for the walk—interesting—- because I always assumed all of them had been done by Milt.  I assume he’s basing his post on this draft sheet from 101 Dalmatians (all of which are being posted by Hans Perk).  Unfortunately I don’t think the draft sheets are always 100% correct.

Frank and Ollie have always taken credit for the Bambi and Thumper ice-skating sequence in Bambi, yet the drafts call out other animators.  We hoped Ollie would clear this up for us when we visited him back in 2006.  Unfortunately, either our questions were poorly asked or it had been too long since that production, for Ollie had some trouble abating our interest.

Either way the walk cycle is a great resource to check out.

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